The Idaho Massacre

About The Idaho Massacre

On November 13, 2022, four students from the University of Idaho are brutally stabbed to death in an off-campus house. After a lengthy investigation and cross-country manhunt, a Ph.D. student from a neighboring university is charged with the crimes. As it turns out, the 28-year-old was majoring in criminology, studying the behavior of killers like the ones he would later be accused of becoming. Did he use his skills to become a real-life Dexter? Were the Idaho victims his first, or was a serial killer hiding in the midst? The producers of The Piketon Massacre explore all sides of the shocking crime in pursuit of the truth.

Publisher

iHeartPodcasts

Category

true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

22 Jul 2020

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

32 of 118 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Introducing: What Happened to Her

   Investigative reporter Melissa Jeltsen explores overlooked cases of women whose deaths were wrongly ruled suicides or dismissed, offering new insights into unsolved mysteries.

2. 

   16 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Introducing: Kingdom of Fraud

   Investigative reporter Michele McPhee explores the billion-dollar fraud conspiracy between polygamist Jacob Kingston and Armenian tycoon Levon Termendzhyan in this interview episode.

3. 

   20 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Introducing: The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe

   When a group of women from all over the country realize they all dated the same prolific romance scammer they vow to bring him to justice. In this brand new season of global number 1 hit podcast, The Girlfriends, Anna Sinfield meets a group of funny, feisty, determined women who all had the misfortune of dating a mysterious man named Derek Alldred. Trust Me Babe is a story about the protective forces of gossip, gut instinct, and trusting your besties and the group of women who took matters into their own hands to take down a fraudster when no one else would listen. Listen here (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-girlfriends-trust-me-118226591) and subscribe to The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts! See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Inside a recent episode

Introducing: What Happened to Her

Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Stories about women whose deaths were too quickly ruled a suicide. You're not gonna kill yourself in the middle of doing laundry. Stories about women no one believed. We were feeling some guilt. We were feeling like, did we overstep? Then we would have these discussions about like, wait a minute, we did the right thing. Cases that everyone else called closed. I was like, how? How can it be? They can't convict her, right? Like, she has so much evidence. And the people who gave everything to get an answer. It's taken my whole life. It's all I ever think about, but we only have one shot at it. Every one of these stories starts in the same place. […]

Who has been a guest on The Idaho Massacre

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Melissa Jeltsen
• Michele McPhee
• Karoline Borega

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

419,108,275

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

6,725 ratings

Spotify

4.1 / 5

1,657 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 85 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

74

Social presence

97

YouTube

93

Engagement

100

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